De-schooling society

How could Illich's ideas about de-schooling society work as an online educational exchange?

Some thoughts and questions to ponder this experiment....

• What about this format is or isn't radical?

• What problems does this raise and answer that dominant education may not?

• What is the role of compensation in a forum like this?

• What does it mean to have a fair exchange in this context?

• Where do we go from here? What are the possibilities for growth for this project?

• If you didn’t participate, why? What would have made you participate?

• Does this actually take the "building" out of education, or are we simply regurgitating educative norms?

• What should be offered? Who decides?

• How does one decide what to post? (i.e. do you have to be an expert and who says, where does the desire to teach or learn come in?)

• Is this accessible? Why not open this up to all of our classes? People without internet access? People outside of community?

• Is it just “what I can teach”? Why not also post what I want to learn?

• What about quality? What if someone has a complaint?

• To what extent is this really education? How is teaching Algebra different from going surfing?

• Does this serve as a supplement to compulsory education or is this a “new game”? In other words, could this overtake the current model?

• What about your community matters? Does it affect your offerings? Is there such a thing as an appropriate community to start something like this?

• How does the way you present your post affect the community’s reaction?

• To what extent does this just become a marketplace? Is that a bad thing?

• Does this prevent the uncovering of more complex knowledge?

• Is this ‘de-schooling’ or just ‘free schooling’?